Skip to content
The William & Flora Hewlett Foundation at a glanceAlso receives grants: funding profile →

· Private foundation

The William & Flora Hewlett Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$625M
Granted FY2024still arriving
2,001
Grants FY2024still arriving
44
States reached
$11M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Environment$1.2BEducation$561MInternational$450MPhilanthropy$443MPublic Benefit$275MCivil Rights$225MArts & Culture$221MSocial Science$138MOther$0
02FY2024 · 2001 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k217 grants · $552k
  • $10k–50k219 grants · $5.9M
  • $50k–250k840 grants · $107M
  • $250k+725 grants · $512M
$150,000
Median grant
44
States reached
$14.2B
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
STICHTING EUROPEAN CLIMATE FOUNDATION$11,212,911
STICHTING EUROPEAN CLIMATE FOUNDATION$11,000,000
CLIMATEWORKS FOUNDATION$10,000,000
AMALGAMATED CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC$10,000,000
STICHTING EUROPEAN CLIMATE FOUNDATION$9,000,000
MSI-US$7,500,000
SAN FRANCISCO FOUNDATION$7,500,000
THE ENERGY FOUNDATION$7,000,000
NEW VENTURE FUND$7,000,000
WINDWARD FUND$6,666,666
COMMUNITY VISION CAPITAL & CONSULTING$5,500,000
NAACP EMPOWERMENT PROGRAMS INC$5,000,000
ELECTION TRUST INITIATIVE LLC$5,000,000
UNITED STATES ENERGY FOUNDATION$4,500,000
INTERNATIONAL SUSTAINABLE ENERGY FOUNDATION$4,000,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

US giving: 84% of grant dollars ($3.4B). The need read here covers only this US portion; the 16% that went abroad ($646M) is mapped below.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY17–24, $44.7M) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 93% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%SISTER SONG INC: $538k → 13%SISTER SONG INC: $538k → 13%THE OPPORTUNITY INSTITUTE: $800k → 10%TIDES CENTER: $2.0M → 10%PRIME COALITION INC: $3.0M → 8%THE OPPORTUNITY INSTITUTE: $500k → 10%TIDES CENTER: $1.5M → 10%TIDES CENTER: $1.3M → 10%TIDES CENTER: $1.0M → 10%TIDES CENTER: $1.0M → 10%TIDES CENTER: $1.0M → 10%TIDES CENTER: $750k → 10%TIDES CENTER: $750k → 10%TIDES CENTER: $550k → 10%NATIONAL URBAN LEAGUE INC: $800k → 17%BLUE MERIDIAN PARTNERS INC: $2.0M → 17%BLUE MERIDIAN PARTNERS INC: $2.0M → 17%LATINO COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $1.3M → 10%LATINO COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $1.0M → 10%HISPANIC ACCESS FOUNDATION: $1.0M → 14%HISPANIC ACCESS FOUNDATION: $1.0M → 14%BUDGIT FOUNDATION: $600k → 14%BAY AREA COUNCIL FOUNDATION: $926k → 10%ACCOUNTABILITY LAB INC: $500k → 14%HISPANIC ACCESS FOUNDATION: $500k → 14%CENTER FOR GLOBAL DEVELOPMENT: $2.0M → 14%CENTER FOR GLOBAL DEVELOPMENT: $1.5M → 14%CENTER FOR GLOBAL DEVELOPMENT: $1.5M → 14%CENTER FOR GLOBAL DEVELOPMENT: $1.5M → 14%CENTER FOR GLOBAL DEVELOPMENT: $1.5M → 14%CENTER FOR GLOBAL DEVELOPMENT: $1.4M → 14%THE NATIONAL CAMPAIGN TO PREVENT TEEN AND UNPLANNE: $1.0M → 14%CENTER FOR GLOBAL DEVELOPMENT: $1.0M → 14%CENTER FOR GLOBAL DEVELOPMENT: $1.0M → 14%THE NATIONAL CAMPAIGN TO PREVENT TEEN AND UNPLANNE: $750k → 14%THE NATIONAL CAMPAIGN TO PREVENT TEEN AND UNPLANNE: $750k → 14%POWER TO DECIDE: $750k → 14%POWER TO DECIDE: $750k → 14%THE NATIONAL CAMPAIGN TO PREVENT TEEN AND UNPLANNE: $750k → 14%THE NATIONAL CAMPAIGN TO PREVENT TEEN AND UNPLANNE: $622k → 14%THE NATIONAL CAMPAIGN TO PREVENT TEEN AND UNPLANNE: $540k → 14%WORLD FAITHS DEVELOPMENT DIALOGUE INT'L INC: $500k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

AK
ME
VT
NH
WA
ID
MT
ND
MN
IL
WI
MI
NY
MA
OR
NV
WY
SD
IA
IN
OH
PA
NJ
CT
RI
CA
UT
CO
NE
MO
KY
VA
MD
DE
AZ
NM
KS
AR
TN
NC
SC
DC
HI
OK
LA
MS
AL
GA
TX
FL

Beyond the US: 16% of all-years giving ($646M)

52 countries, by the recipient’s country on the filing.

grant dollars sentlessmore
Netherlands$155M · 99 grants
United Kingdom$76M · 249 grants
Kenya$70M · 241 grants
Canada$44M · 96 grants
Germany$36M · 66 grants
Mexico$35M · 134 grants
Uganda$33M · 120 grants
Senegal$30M · 85 grants
Ghana$28M · 94 grants
India$24M · 50 grants
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving. International giving is mapped by the recipient’s country from the same 990 filings; comparable need data isn’t available at that grain.
04

Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 7% of The William & Flora Hewlett Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

The William & Flora Hewlett Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 21% directed abroad (not shown)
How this is measured
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

92%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$3.2B · 1392 repeat orgs$286M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +34% since the first grant, against +6% for those funded once.

1392 repeat relationships: 800 still active in FY2024, 592 since wound down; 179 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

1392
376

Total granted

$3.2B
$208M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+34%
+6%

Still filing today

72%
39%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $78M went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureEducationEnvironmentInternationalPublic BenefitCivil RightsOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

  • CF
    CLIMATEWORKS FOUNDATION
    8× · 2017–2024 · $151M · revenue +250%
  • RL
    RESOURCES LEGACY FUND
    8× · 2017–2024 · $71M · revenue +63% · 60% of their budget
  • UNITED STATES ENERGY FOUNDATION
    5× · 2020–2024 · $56M · revenue +40%

Funded once

  • CL
    CLIMATE LEAD INC
    one grant, 2023 · $13M · 42% of their budget
  • TJ
    THE JEREMY AND HANNELORE GRANTHAM ENVIRONMENTAL TRUSTgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $10M · revenue +174% · 37% of their budget
  • THE HOWARD UNIVERSITY
    one grant, 2021 · $10M · revenue +11%
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
California Water Data Consortium

The California Water Data Consortium is an independent, nonprofit organization created by a partnership of state agencies and others to ensure that Californians have access to the best possible water and ecological information to make…

Science & Tech
2
Ucsf Foundation Investment Company

the organization provides professional investment management services for endowed gifts and financial assets entrusted to the UCSF Foundation.

Education
3
CarbonPlan

We work collaboratively to build open tools and resources for the evaluation and deployment of robust climate programs. We share analyses through public communication and collaboration with journalists in order to foster effective climate…

Environment
4
The American Institute of Architects

The AIA California, in collaboration with local components, is the voice of the architectural profession.

—
5
California Competes

California Competes: Higher Education for a Strong Economy is a nonpartisan policy and research organization focused on identifying solutions to the states most critical challenges at the intersection of higher education, equity, and the…

Education
6
Foreign Policy Research Institute

Highest quality scholarship and nonpartisan policy analysis focused on u.s. foreign policy

International
7
Environmental and Energy Study Institute

Educate policymakers about equitable science-based solutions for climate, energy, & the environment

—
8
The Climate Center

The Climate Center is a climate and energy policy nonprofit working to rapidly reduce climate pollution at scale, starting in California.

Education
9
The Nasdaq Entrepreneurial Center Inc

Deliver world-class resources and mentoring to enable every entrepreneur across the globe to realize their maximum potential.

Arts & Culture
10
The Common Application Inc

The common application promotes access, equity, and integrity in the college admission process.

Education
11
Chartered Alternative Investment Analyst

The caia association is a global credentialing body for alternative investments, representing professionals in over 95 countries. it upholds high ethical standards, offers the chartered alternative investment analyst designation, and…

Community Improvement
12
Institute for Public Strategies

to work alongside communities to build power, challenge systems of injustice, protect health, and improve quality of life.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Open Government Partnership Secretariat; the most unlike its peers is Nihonmachi Little Friends. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network

1302 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 1302 of the 2,000 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

256
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
283
Early backer (in before they grew)
1278/1302
Grantees still filing
828/1302
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

STICHTING EUROPEAN CLIMATE FOUNDATION: $171,127,911 · OtherSTICHTING EUROPEAN CLIMATE FOUNDATIONTHE ENERGY FOUNDATION: $162,104,500 · OtherTHE ENERGY FOUNDATION+91 more: $641,894,859 · Other+91 moreNEW VENTURE FUND: $105,723,500 · EnvironmentNEW VENTURE FUNDRESOURCES LEGACY FUND: $71,193,700 · EnvironmentRESOURCES LEGACY FUN…WINDWARD FUND: $52,863,000 · EnvironmentWINDWARD FUNDWESTERN CONSERVATION FOUNDATION: $40,810,000 · EnvironmentWESTERN CONSERVATION…WATER FOUNDATION: $25,843,250 · EnvironmentWATER FOUNDATION+20 more: $145,896,751 · Environment+20 moreROCKEFELLER PHILANTHROPY ADVISORS INC: $61,182,205 · PhilanthropyROCKEFELLER PHIL…UNITED STATES ENERGY FOUNDATION: $55,900,000 · PhilanthropyUNITED STATES EN…THE SAN FRANCISCO FOUNDATION: $47,100,000 · PhilanthropyTHE SAN FRANCISC…Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc: $35,874,750 · PhilanthropyAmalgamated Char…MSI US: $29,400,500 · PhilanthropyMSI USSilicon Valley Community Foundation: $14,288,900 · PhilanthropyINTERNATIONAL INITIATIVE FOR IMPACT EVALUATION INC: $14,195,000 · PhilanthropyThe Pew Charitable Trusts: $14,050,000 · Philanthropy+13 more: $95,173,155 · Philanthropy+13 moreMassachusetts Institute of Technology: $21,743,278 · EducationMassachusetts…President and Fellows of Harvard College: $20,823,634 · EducationPresident and…JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY: $19,594,750 · EducationJOHNS HOPKINS…THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $17,402,499 · EducationTHE BOARD OF …Learning Policy Institute: $13,247,750 · EducationR STREET INSTITUTE: $12,785,500 · EducationAMERICAN UNIVERSITY: $11,647,106 · EducationTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $11,325,000 · EducationTHE ROOSEVELT INSTITUTE: $10,374,000 · EducationTHE HOWARD UNIVERSITY: $10,000,000 · Education+25 more: $139,086,071 · Education+25 moreUNITED NATIONS FOUNDATION INC: $29,151,500 · InternationalOXFAM-AMERICA INC: $24,312,800 · InternationalIPAS: $19,650,000 · InternationalINTERNATIONAL BUDGET PARTNERSHIP: $18,460,000 · InternationalID INSIGHT INC: $12,291,000 · InternationalWORLD RESOURCES INSTITUTE: $11,662,787 · InternationalNATURAL RESOURCE GOVERNANCE INSTITUTE: $10,555,000 · InternationalCARNEGIE ENDOWMENT FOR INTERNATIONAL PEACE: $9,140,000 · InternationalOPEN GOVERNMENT PARTNERSHIP SECRETARIAT: $8,250,000 · InternationalENGENDERHEALTH INC: $7,311,000 · InternationalDKT INTERNATIONAL INC: $6,650,000 · InternationalGLOBAL FUND FOR WOMEN INC: $6,140,000 · International+4 more: $18,477,963 · InternationalCLIMATEWORKS FOUNDATION: $150,641,834 · Science & Tech+1 more: $3,644,500 · Science & TechTHE ASPEN INSTITUTE INC: $13,363,210 · Social ScienceAFRICAN POPULATION & HEALTH RESEARCH CENTER INC: $13,325,000 · Social ScienceTHE BROOKINGS INSTITUTION: $10,748,000 · Social ScienceACTIONAID USA: $8,191,000 · Social ScienceWASHINGTON CENTER FOR EQUITABLE GROWTH INC: $7,115,000 · Social SciencePopulation Reference Bureau Inc: $6,605,000 · Social ScienceBEHAVIORAL IDEAS LAB INC: $5,250,000 · Social ScienceJOINT CENTER FOR POLITICAL AND ECONOMIC STUDIES INC: $3,885,000 · Social Science
Other$975,127,270Environment$442,330,201Philanthropy$367,164,510Education$288,029,588International$182,052,050Science & Tech$154,286,334Social Science$68,482,210

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTHE ENERGY FOUNDATION: $162,104,500 over 8y, 36% of budgetCLIMATEWORKS FOUNDATION: $150,641,834 over 8y, 14% of budgetNEW VENTURE FUND: $105,723,500 over 8y, 2.7% of budgetRESOURCES LEGACY FUND: $71,193,700 over 8y, 60% of budgetROCKEFELLER PHILANTHROPY ADVISORS INC: $61,182,205 over 8y, 3.0% of budgetUNITED STATES ENERGY FOUNDATION: $55,900,000 over 5y, 9.0% of budgetWINDWARD FUND: $52,863,000 over 8y, 17% of budgetTHE SAN FRANCISCO FOUNDATION: $47,100,000 over 8y, 4.7% of budgetWESTERN CONSERVATION FOUNDATION: $40,810,000 over 8y, 55% of budgetAmalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc: $35,874,750 over 6y, 5.2% of budgetMSI US: $29,400,500 over 7y, 17% of budgetUNITED NATIONS FOUNDATION INC: $29,151,500 over 8y, 5.9% of budgetWATER FOUNDATION: $25,843,250 over 8y, 40% of budgetOXFAM-AMERICA INC: $24,312,800 over 8y, 5.5% of budgetMassachusetts Institute of Technology: $21,743,278 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetPresident and Fellows of Harvard College: $20,823,634 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetIPAS: $19,650,000 over 8y, 7.8% of budgetJOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY: $19,594,750 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetINTERNATIONAL BUDGET PARTNERSHIP: $18,460,000 over 8y, 50% of budgetTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $17,402,499 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetCENTER FOR AMERICAN PROGRESS: $16,185,000 over 8y, 6.9% of budgetTIDES CENTER: $14,979,000 over 8y, 1.9% of budgetCENTER FOR GLOBAL DEVELOPMENT: $14,827,000 over 8y, 18% of budgetSilicon Valley Community Foundation: $14,288,900 over 8y, 0.4% of budgetINTERNATIONAL INITIATIVE FOR IMPACT EVALUATION INC: $14,195,000 over 7y, 40% of budgetNATIONAL WILDLIFE FEDERATION: $14,091,250 over 8y, 2.4% of budgetThe Pew Charitable Trusts: $14,050,000 over 8y, 1.5% of budgetTHE ASPEN INSTITUTE INC: $13,363,210 over 8y, 1.1% of budgetAFRICAN POPULATION & HEALTH RESEARCH CENTER INC: $13,325,000 over 8y, 10% of budgetLearning Policy Institute: $13,247,750 over 8y, 23% of budgetCLIMATE LEAD INC: $13,000,000 over 1y, 42% of budgetR STREET INSTITUTE: $12,785,500 over 8y, 31% of budgetID INSIGHT INC: $12,291,000 over 8y, 15% of budgetROCKEFELLER BROTHERS FUND INC: $12,200,000 over 7y, 6.2% of budgetTHE WILDERNESS SOCIETY: $11,753,600 over 8y, 6.2% of budgetWORLD RESOURCES INSTITUTE: $11,662,787 over 8y, 1.1% of budgetAMERICAN UNIVERSITY: $11,647,106 over 8y, 0.4% of budgetTROUT UNLIMITED INC: $11,511,000 over 7y, 4.8% of budgetHUMBOLDT AREA FOUNDATION: $11,344,483 over 8y, 70% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $11,325,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCenter for Cultural Innovation: $10,931,750 over 8y, 75% of budgetGREAT PLAINS INSTITUTE FOR SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT INC: $10,915,000 over 8y, 22% of budgetPOPULATION ACTION INTERNATIONAL: $10,910,000 over 7y, 22% of budgetTHE BROOKINGS INSTITUTION: $10,748,000 over 8y, 1.6% of budgetNATURAL RESOURCE GOVERNANCE INSTITUTE: $10,555,000 over 8y, 14% of budgetCLIMATE POLICY INITIATIVE INC: $10,545,000 over 8y, 14% of budgetTHE ROOSEVELT INSTITUTE: $10,374,000 over 7y, 22% of budgetCOMMUNITY VISION CAPITAL & CONSULTING: $10,165,000 over 7y, 23% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

  • Who funds THE ENERGY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds CLIMATEWORKS FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds NEW VENTURE FUND ↗
  • Who funds RESOURCES LEGACY FUND ↗
  • Who funds ROCKEFELLER PHILANTHROPY ADVISORS INC ↗
  • Who funds UNITED STATES ENERGY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds WINDWARD FUND ↗
  • Who funds THE SAN FRANCISCO FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds WESTERN CONSERVATION FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc ↗
  • Who funds MSI US ↗
  • Who funds UNITED NATIONS FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds WATER FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds OXFAM-AMERICA INC ↗
  • Who funds Massachusetts Institute of Technology ↗
  • Who funds President and Fellows of Harvard College ↗
  • Who funds IPAS ↗
  • Who funds JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds INTERNATIONAL BUDGET PARTNERSHIP ↗
  • Who funds THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds CENTER FOR AMERICAN PROGRESS ↗
  • Who funds TIDES CENTER ↗
  • Who funds CENTER FOR GLOBAL DEVELOPMENT ↗
  • Who funds Silicon Valley Community Foundation ↗
  • Who funds INTERNATIONAL INITIATIVE FOR IMPACT EVALUATION INC ↗
  • Who funds NATIONAL WILDLIFE FEDERATION ↗
  • Who funds The Pew Charitable Trusts ↗
  • Who funds THE ASPEN INSTITUTE INC ↗
  • Who funds AFRICAN POPULATION & HEALTH RESEARCH CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds Learning Policy Institute ↗
  • Who funds CLIMATE LEAD INC ↗
  • Who funds R STREET INSTITUTE ↗
  • Who funds ID INSIGHT INC ↗
  • Who funds ROCKEFELLER BROTHERS FUND INC ↗

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

The Zellerbach Family…Walter and Elise Haas…Kenneth Rainin Founda…The David and Lucile …Carnegie Corporation …Phyllis C Wattis Foun…Climateworks Foundati…The Heising-Simons Fo…Democracy Fund IncFleishhacker Foundati…Omidyar Network Fund …Esb Charitable Founda…
The Zellerbach Family FoundationCA114.8× affinity107 shared granteesties to 10 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Zellerbach Family Foundation · Walter and Elise Haas Fund · Kenneth Rainin Foundation · The David and Lucile Packard Foundation · Carnegie Corporation of New York · Phyllis C Wattis Foundation · Climateworks Foundation · The Heising-Simons Foundation · Democracy Fund Inc · Fleishhacker Foundation · Omidyar Network Fund Inc · Esb Charitable Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The William & Flora Hewlett Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The William & Flora Hewlett Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 120%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 11%
  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology: 35% of income from government
  • Icivics Inc: 13% of income from government
  • Trustees of Tufts College: 13% of income from government
  • Trustees of Boston University: 12% of income from government
  • Johns Hopkins University: 12% of income from government
  • Jobs for the Future Inc: 11% of income from government
  • Ibis Reproductive Health Inc: 9% of income from government
  • President and Fellows of Harvard College: 7% of income from government
  • The Center for Effective Philanthropy Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Achieving the Dream Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Oxfam-America Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
12get no government money at all
37report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12 to 24 months.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 2000 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Source object · view filing

Play a game based on William & Flora Hewlett’s filings →

More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home